Summer Institute for Teaching and Learning

Getting Started
Who We Are and What We Value

Exporing Strategies
What We've Done and Others to Try

Flipping the Class

Creating "Course Captures"

  • Audacity for audio recording
  • Movie Maker (oldschool) for video

Resources: T & L Centers

Tools We've Discovered

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SUMMER INSTUTUTE FOR TEACHING & LEARNING 2013

Bridging the Gap in Large(r) Classes by Creating Connections and Engaging Students

Strategies Search: 78 Strategies

Highlight – What you’ve done (good/bad/ugly)
Highlight – What intrigues you and might you want to try?

Compare notes with a partner: List your combined top 10 for each.

Let's explore it through our own lenses and think a bit about how it might work in large(r) classes.

(e.g.) Grouping –How do we do this in large classes; choose your own adventure? or make purposeful grouping? Base groups or groups based on the task? How about choosing a leader for each group giving 5 bonus points – changing this mid-term so that another leader can try based on the model set by the first.

  • Make them move or show them your XXOO at the start of class
  • Literature Circles
  • Think-Pair-Share //Think-Pair-Square-Share
  • PLTs (this is their “go to” group)

TechTime: A few tools that you may find useful for grouping